From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 8 10:14:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from michael.checkpoint.com (michael.checkpoint.com [199.203.73.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C0337B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:14:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by michael.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA01661; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:14:05 +0200 (IST) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f28IOh858979; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:24:43 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:24:38 +0200 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Tyler K McGeorge Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: September 1752 Message-ID: <20010308202438.A58959@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <000501c0a7fa$990247e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000501c0a7fa$990247e0$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org>; from treznor@sunflower.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:07:08PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:07:08PM -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote: > Has anybody else ever typed: > > $ cal 9 1752 > > What is up with September 1752? I am very confused by that. The Julian -> Gregorian calendar change in England and its colonies. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message